Stevens overwhelms O’Sullivan to move closer to elusive title

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MATTHEW STEVENS, sick and tired of being referred to as the best player not to have won a world-ranking tournament win, continued his quest to put that irritating truth to rights by impressively beating Ronnie O’Sullivan 5-0 in the third round of the LG Cup at Preston Guild Hall yesterday.

“I did well to get nil,” O’Sullivan said. “Matthew outplayed me, outscored me and outwitted me. I was just trounced.” O’Sullivan scored only 30 points in an extraordinarily one-sided match that resulted in his first whitewash since a 6-0 defeat by Jimmy White in the low-key 1997 Catch China International.